Sun Media has discovered the Argos are actually paying the suspended NFLer close to half a million this season, not the $240,000 that's been widely reported.

Of course, a good chunk of that could be under the table, as the CFL's proposed salary cap remains little more than a rumour.

Wonder how commissioner Tom Wright feels about all this?

Wright was one of the driving forces behind the cap. He also happens to be here in town for a Grey Cup media event today.

On one hand, he can't be impressed. On the other, when's the last time the CFL got this kind of media attention during training camp, particularly in Toronto?

As is so often the case in the CFL, a piece of good news has a dark flip side.

GROWING CONCERN: More and more CFL types are questioning the signing of players under suspension in the NFL, an issue first raised in this space when the Blue Bombers showed interest in Onterrio Smith.

Saskatchewan Roughriders president Jim Hopson is the latest front office figure to question the practice.

"We as a league need to talk about this practice and (whether) we really want to be signing players who are under suspension somewhere else," Hopson told the Regina Leader-Post.